Luanda — The minister of Health, Sílvia Lutukuca, said Tuesday in Luanda that a new batch of the Russian vaccine Sputnik would soon be received in order to administer the second dose.
In May, the country received 40,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik vaccine, out of a batch of 12 million, to immunise 6 million people. The window between the administration of the first and second dose is 90 days.
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